Activities for Chapters 13-19 of Allan Baillie’s novel, Little Brother. This resource is part of a unit of work for Stage 3 students.

Activity requiring students to identify the characters from the quotes provided. This resource is part of a unit of work on Allan Baillie’s novel, Little Brother, designed for Stage 3 students.

Metalanguage mix and match activity for Allan Baillie’s novel Little Brother. This resource is part of a unit of work for Stage 3.

4 Cloze activities to support the teaching of Core Study: Cities of Vesuvius. Pompeii and Herculaneum: Excavating the lost cities The earthquake of 62 CE Pompeii’s temples The work of Dr. Estelle Lazer

3 Cloze activities to support the teaching of A Wrinkle in Time: Madeleine L’Engle Science Fiction Genre The novel and the Cold War

Magazine article by 8-year old Bana Alabed, The world can be doing more for refugees. Bana explains why she is a refugee, her life before and after leaving Syria and her argument for why we can all be doing more to help refugees. The student activities include questions based on Bana’s text and a scaffolded response to her writing sent via text. This resource is part of a Stage 3 unit of work on Allan Baillie’s novel, Little Brother.

A pervasive theme in Peter Temple’s novel, mental illness is sympathetically portrayed through the struggles of the protagonist, Joe Cashin to deal with post-traumatic stress disorder and depression gained as a result of witnessing a colleague die during an investigation into organised crime in Melbourne. Less sympathetic in their portrayal is the trauma experienced by a number of minor characters who suffered child abuse and who engage in seeking out the perpetrators and killing them. This resource outlines the extent of the issue of mental illness and asks students to make judgments on how effective they believe it has been dealt with.

Analysis of article published by Michael Heywood in The Australian, Peter Temple’s crime writing polished to perfection. The article was written by a close friend of Peter Temple and gives an overview of his life and works.

Analysis of the symbols in The Broken Shore: nature, significance, purpose, contribution to the novel, implications.

Lesson on the concept of Intertextuality and use of this concept in The Broken Shore to give a depth to character motives, allusion to previously explored problems and issues and culturally significant issues.

Revision activity requiring students to guess which character from the novel spoke the statements. References provided.

True or false revision activity on Peter Temple’s novel, The Broken Shore.

Crossword for the novel, The Broken Shore.

Sequencing activity for key events in Peter Temple’s novel, The Broken Shore.

Worksheet to accompany the Australian Broadcasting Corporation 7.30 Report mini-documentary, Worldwide Paedophile Ring Busted in Sting Operation. The video outlines the 2014 work of Taskforce Argos which cracked the largest child pornography internet site and led to the arrest of thousands of criminals worldwide. Students are then asked to reflect on the impact that highly emotive investigations such as Argos have on the police officers involved. The resource is part of a unit of work on Peter Temple’s novel The Broken Shore.

Peter Temple’s novel, The Broken Shore deals with the issue of the complex issues around small town secrets. From the protagonist, Joe Cashin suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, to the issues of police corruption and the historic operation of a pedaphile ring, characters discover secrets and use these for their own advantages. This resource outlines the many secrets held by the Port Monro community and the dangers these secrets can have. This resource also provides students with an outline of the themes in the parallel text, Joseph Conrad’s Nostromo, and invites comparison of the issues.

4 Cloze activities on the topic The Australian Colonies: What was the impact of the American Revolution on Australia? Why did Britain settle Australia? What was the New South Wales Corps? Aboriginal-European contact in the 1800s

Activities for Chapters 7-12 of Allan Baillie’s novel, Little Brother.

Analysis of a review by Stewart King and published in The Conversationalist . The review examines the positives and negatives about the novel. Students are asked to make suggestions about what they would like included in this review if they were the editor.

Detective Sergeant Joe Cashin is the protagonist in Peter Temple’s novel, The Broken Shore. He represents an ordinary man who stands up to some extraordinary issues: police corruption, racism, a paedaphilia ring, social class discrimination and his own personal battle with post-traumatic stress disorder. But he is far from a perfect human being. This resource provides extracts, asks students to identify his relationship to other characters in the novel and analyse the impact of the PTSD on him and his work as a police officer.